Quicktime 6, and MPEG-4 Licensing

Apple official released Quicktime 6 today... And according to CNet, new licensing terms have been arranged:

Under the new terms, owners of Web site content can license the latest video and audio compression format for 25 cents per subscriber or 2 cents per hour, subject to a $1 million annual cap. Also, MPEG LA set a minimum threshold so that content owners with fewer than 50,000 subscribers aren't subject to royalties. The fees are applicable to Web site operators that benefit commercially from use of the technology, through either paid advertisements, pay-per-view services or subscriptions.

Previous terms had no annual cap.

and i'm ready to rock. AAC is super sweet and mp4 is nice. can't wait for vid and audio apps to support mpg4. imaging AAC and Flash? wow... but that won't happen for a while i guess.

still having trouble with broadcaster i made the spd file and sent it to a friend..they opened it up and get this component is missing crap..anybody have any ideas?

post up a zip of the file and i'll give it a go

a manual unicast you must have the other person's ip..i managed to get it to work on with a friend on her XP box but not with a friend on her dual gig X machine..go figure

Originally posted by boobers
still having trouble with broadcaster i made the spd file and sent it to a friend..they opened it up and get this component is missing crap..anybody have any ideas?

Worked for us...real nice even though there was a slight delay the quality was good!

Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I couldnt find any information on it at the apple site.

I have Quicktime 5 Pro. If I upgraded to quicktime 6, would it be the pro version? or do I have to pay for it again? I dont want to download 6 and have it delete Q5Pro. Anyone know about this

just wondering if anyone's had compatibility problems yet with apps like final cut pro, imovie, VLC (i use it for VCD), or the DiVX 5 alpha 2.

You Do Not get updates to QT 6 pro if you update from 5.0 Pro. You will need to buy the Pro version of QT 6 after updating. I did not know that and so I dont have Pro version now. Does anyone know how do I get my QT 5 back? Can I have QT 5 and 6 at the same time?? :(

Originally posted by cmoney
just wondering if anyone's had compatibility problems yet with apps like final cut pro, imovie, VLC (i use it for VCD), or the DiVX 5 alpha 2.

VLC is broke, in fact VLC has a notice on their downloads page about it, they blame Apple.

DivX 5 alpha 2 works beautfiully it's much much smoother than QT 5 and the quality is amazing. Unfortunately there's some "bug" in QT 6 that applies to mp3 audio in divx files. At least that's what divx.com claims in their readme for the mac plug-in. As a result you have to run all your files through their validator before they can be played by Quicktime. I find this ridiculous, that was the one fix that I hoped Apple would make to QT 6 and never did

:(